Senior Community Nurse

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Newtown, Cambridge

Senior Community Nurse

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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Newtown, Cambridge

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 28 Dec | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Full Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community nurse to join our Cambridge East and South City Nursing Team. You will be working as part of a team which includes a Community Nursing Clinical Lead, Community Nurses (RN), and Healthcare Assistants. You will link closely with colleagues outside of CPFT including GPs and other members of the multidisciplinary team to support excellent nursing care at home, reducing the necessity for acute hospital admission. The successful candidate will need to have within a community nursing team or similar role - with community related continual professional development evidenced with completion or plan for completion of post graduate community related qualification. The successful candidate will be supported and encouraged to develop their career within role., Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence

  • and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
  • + To work as an autonomous practitioner with the integrated multi professional team + To be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of complex patients + To be accountable for assessing interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines + To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making + Provide support and education of peers, new staff, non registered staff, and students + To supervise junior colleagues + Accountable for the delegation of caseload + To provide high standards of nursing intervention within a patients own home, this includes lone working , with access to specialist and advanced practitioners when required + To provide support, guidance and leadership to a team of nurses and non registered team members
  • DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website, + To be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills
  • + To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of the multidisciplinary team + To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making + Provide support and education t peers, new staff non-registered staff and students + To supervise junior staff and students overseeing patient intervention and ensure that a high standard of care is delivered and staff achieve set competencies + To be accountable for a delegated case load + To prioritise all referrals according to clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately + To provide a high standard of nursing intervention within a patient's own home this includes lone working with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required + To identify patient needs, agree goads and to provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, to refer to other services and provide or order equipment

    Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development. To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities. Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications., Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services. We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including: + Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people; + Specialist mental health and learning disability services; + Children and young people's mental health services; + Children's community services in Peterborough; + Social care; + Ground-breaking research We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity. CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances. Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country. Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over. If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation. All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.